to continue the conversation on today's stories, go to other blog. that will wrap it up for us. good morning. happy tuesday. the pope resign, really? that's one idea out there to address the sex abuse scandal. you won't believe whose idea it

is. >> very happy, very happy. i cried like a little baby. tears were flowing when i walked into this house this morning all by myself. >> our tears were flowing too. homeless no more. a man down on his luck gets back on his feet. wait until you meet the police officer who lifted him up. dirty bombs, plutonium dropped in a crowd, uranium in the hands of terrorists, all possibilities and all on the table at a major nuclear summit going on right now in washington. we are covering all the anklegl. barbara starr at the pentagon. susan maljveaux at the white house. we have josh levs looking into the spy game. nooub nuclear secrets. who is buying and who is selling? the u.s., uk, france, russia, china, pakistan, india and authority korea but the

lion's share, around 90% are controlled by the u.s. and russia. those are just declared nations. there is a lot more out there. nuclear materials that can be lethal in the wrong hands. the hands of terrorists. barbara starr, live at the pentagon. barbara, how real is that threat? >> well, you know, kyra, the president says the possibility of nuclear terrorism is the biggest threat that the world faces. how real is it? how terrorists really get their hands on nuclear material? of course, the big concern is al qaeda. the u.s. believes they are trying to get their hands on nuclear material for years? listen to john brennan, the president's top adviser or counter terrorism. >> over the past two decades, indoi indisputable evidence that dozens of terrorists have sought weapons of mass effect, relative to other potential weapons, which include biological,

chemical, radiological, the consequences and impact of a nuclear attack would be the most devastating as well as the most lasting. >> how hard is it really? terrorists first would have to get their hands on nuclear material. as you pointed out, it is all very strictly controlled or at least everyone hopes. if it was stolen by criminals, perhaps, and terrorists got their hands on it. the next challenge they would face is fashioning it into some kind of weapon and being able to deliver it to explode it, if you will, over a city or military base. all of these things will make it a very tough challenge for terrorists but the whole idea of the summit here in washington is to make sure they never get their hands on it in the first place. kyra? >> if you were to select the countries that pose the biggest threats, can we even do that? even with the lack of information that we have? >> there are some countries that are of concern because not that

their government would sell to terrorists, perhaps, some of them but are the controls strict enough? let's look at a map. on the one hand, you have iran and north korea, always a concern. there is a lot of worry about what their governments actually are up to. so they fall into somewhat of a category all by themselves. you also have these other countries, russia, pakistan, india, concern that their controls are strict enough, that terrorists or criminals could break in and get their hands on some of that nuclear material. there has been some good news out of the summit. of course, ukraine, a lot of concern about their stock piles, that they are now officially. >> agreeing to pult those under much stricter controls and shut down their stockpile effort. >> let's talk about iran. they are not at summit but on the tip of everyone's tongue.

for the first time, china has said sanctions are possible to deal with iran. that came after president obama met pry satly with hprivately. just as dangerous as nuclear weapons are, nuclear secrets and information falling into the right hands. josh levs has been investigating, what did you find out? >> it is concern to are so many countries. you are absolutely right. this trade in nuclear no how or knowledge or secrets is just a big a concern. let me tell you what's next. this is a map from the federation of american scientists. what they have done is label some of the sites where they are known to be nuclear sites, nuclear weaponry, different types. they use different codes. as we take a look at the locations of nuclear weapons, it is important to keep in mind

that where there are nuclear weapons, there is nuclear know how. there are a lot of other countries and peoples that would love to make that map and have some of this. that means understanding how to do it. let's take a look at what president obama said last week. he said, a black market trade and nuclear secrets and nuclear materials abound. technology to build a bomb has spread. terrorists are determined to buy, build, or steal one. that's what we have been seeing. something we saw during the bush administration. it is going to continue now. let me show you some video i believe we have of one figure in pakistan who has come up often. this is a man named a.q.ca kahn. he said he had some nuclear

weapo information and passed it along. how many places got information from him? just looking at him helps us keep in mind how serious this is. certain people hoffwho have a lf nuclear know how, a lot of places would love to get this information. let's come back to the map over here for a second. we keep talking about north korea. one of the concerns about north korea is not only how much weaponry does it have but has it shared information? one thing we have been reporting, there are concerns that north korea may have given nuclear secrets to syria, which is pretty far west from them. the idea, this interconnected world with this black market trade in information and knowledge and secrets that are not supposed to get out of any one government. kyra, that is something that all the folks at this summit are hoping to crack down on as well. >> do we know how much money flies around in the black market for these nukes and for the

secrets? >> bmillions. there is no single figure that i trust enough. it is a black market. there are billions of dollars available out there flowing their way within the system of this trade. that makes a lot of sense. the weapons to a rogue group or a nation, give power. you will find the people that have this are certainly being pursued by groups that have access to insane amounts of money, kiran. >> josh, thanks. so much more ahead on the nuclear threat. plus, president obama opens up today's summit. we are going to bring you those remarks live. in the meantime, we want to hear from you, rotten economy, bitter health care battle, call recalls, bowling, mine explosions. how worried are you about loose nukes? go to my blog at cnn.com/kyra. i would love to read some of your comments later on. heresy, the unspeakable word. now voiced by the outspoken pastor. why one priest is calling for

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overhauling rules on how to handle future allegations of sex abuse. they published a one-page summary outlining the approved steps the diocese should follow if a priest is accused of sexual misconduct. notifying local police the most notable. they say it has been years in the making and designed to help the media better understand church procedures. one brave priest here in the u.s. is already speaking out. he wants a more drastic and extremely likely measure in light of the sex abuse scandal. it is an idea that some consider heresy. janet woo spoke with father james scale, a definite among the flock. the pope should step down if he is not prepared to embrace the truth relative to this matter. >> do you think the pope is being untruthful?

>> i think he is- >> reporter: the father has with held money from the diocese. >> by placing weak men in temptation, they were as cu culpable as they have. >> they will not have my optic obedience for me. there is nothing more prolife than the better protection of children. yet, this church has remained patently silent about this. >> reporter: while his sermon was neither surprising nor out of character -- >> they couldn't help to rise to their feet and applaud him for his bravery. >> we had 1700 families. we are up to 2300 families in an eight-year period when other churches are closing. >> reporter: his parishioners worry. >> i am. my favorite term for the hierarchy in roam is the red

cozanostra. >> of course, i'm afraid. my stom has has been jumping off and on for eight years. of course, i'm afraid. when a person comes to the point of not being afraid to die, how then can you possibly fear what anyone or any institution could do to you? >> that was janet woo reporting. father scales presiding bishop does not share the priests views. more fallout over the seven--year-o seven--year-old shipped back to russia. his return has outraged russia and prompted calls for all adoptions to american parents to be halted. state department says it will send top officials to moscow to urge that adoptions continue. they are asking that russian authorities share any medical information or records that suggest the boy may have been bused b abused in tennessee.

it seems to have sparked universal outrage. the big question is, were any laws broken? >> the question is, if there was child endangerment or abandonment, which most of us think there was, where did it take place? it doesn't seem it took place in tennessee. she was in charge of the child there. she took the kid to the washington, d.c. airport. he was then properly put on a united airline flight as an unaccompanied minor. i have had my kids fly that way, all thousand though not internationally. i doesn't think that is endangerment or neglect. where it might have happened was in russia? >> could russia charge her? they are not going to extra diet her to face misdemeanor charges. there may not be any way to charge her. that may be the legal problem all the local authorities are dealing with. >> tennessee adoption agency assigned to check on the family says it had not been able to reach the woman since late last month. agency officials says they could have helped the family with any

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about 1%. they are down about 2% now. the overall markets down by 7 points. 10,999. a bit of an update. golf smith and calloway golf were banking on phil mickelson's golf. they will refund customers who bought specific golf clubs in early april. it is part of a promotion. it will cost them $1 million. you can see that is working out for them. his whole some image is taking the spotlight. >> talk about two totally different golfers personally. >> very different images. >> there you know, his wife, amy, fighting breast cancer. that kiss, boy, tells it all. that's what it is all about. >> thanks, steph. let's take you live. the president of the united states. this is it. the class picture as we like to say. he is getting ready for his

opening som opening comments of the nuclear threat summit. as soon as it gets started, we will take you there live. if you are wondering why this is such a big deal, we are talking about 36 heads of state and delegations from ten countries converging there on washington, d.c. well be following, obviously, this summit throughout the afternoon. president obama, the world host and the negotiator, but, is this the right emphasis for the white house. after all, jobs, the economy, still issue number one with the american people. not nuclear threats. cnn white house correspondent, suzanne malveaux is in washington as we are watching this unfold. suzanne, that's always the moment that everybody wants to see who is there and what exactly could be accomplished. what do you think we can expect to hear from the president in his remarks? >> kyra, it is a very good question. a lot of people are wondering, creating jobs, that really is the number one concern for ma

americans. they believe the president can do both, creating jobs, the economy and unemployment number but also pointing to something that he believes is very important, the threat of terrorists getting ahold of nuclear materials creating some sort of nuclear bomb and attacking the united states or other critical allies. so what you are going to hear from the president this morning, kyra, in just a couple of minutes or so, is this idea that it is time for words to stop and we need to have action that these leaders need to come together and to think as one and to recognize nuclear terrorism as a serious threat. he is so convinced, kyra, that the language here he is using is quite dramatic when you listen to it. i want to read a quick excerpt. he is going to say the smallest amount of plutonium, about the size of an apple could kill and injury hundreds of thousands of innocent people. terrorist networks such as al

qaeda have tried to acquire the material for a nuclear weapon. if they ever succeed, they would surely use it. how do we know this is true? we can only count on white house officials and what they are saying, which is intelligence, points to the fact that they believe al qaeda and other criminal gangs are trying to get their hands on this material. we have heard this from president clinton, president bush. we are now hearing it from president obama and what he is trying to do is create a sense of urgency, some momentum to get some of these other world leaders involved in trying to secure that nuclear material. it's not an easy case to make. some of these nations, india, pakistan, they don't believe necessarily that that's a big problem. for president obama and some others, they do believe that this is a real threat to the united states and around the world, kyra. >> suzanne, we'll be watching it unfold right here live on cnn. appreciate it so much. what nuclear threats are we actually talking about? not russia launching a nuke in

kansas. russia talking about a dirty bomb in the hands of al qaeda, dropped in times square, the mall of america, dodgers stadium. how real is that threat? sharon is director of the proliferation prevention program at the center for strategic and international studies. we are watching live pictures of the summit about to get under way. we have been wanting to put this in per speck if i hatiff for th average american. they want a job, the 401(k) to get better, health care benefits. then, when you hear that al qaeda has been trying to get its hands on nuclear weapons for more nanthan a decade, that mak me a little nervous. >> we do have evidence, two pakistani scientists provided some drawings to bin laden and

that is troubling. we don't know too much about how far al qaeda is along in that process. what we do know, however, is that there is a lot. there is tons of highly enriched uranium. 1600 tons and 500 tons of plutonium worldwide. we need that. that would make awful lot of bombs. we need to make sure that material is adequately secured. >> also too when you look at the number of leaders in this room, we are looking at live pictures right now, sharon, of the president of the united states mingling with various leaders as they get ready to sit down for formal remarks and begin this summit, i'm looking at the numbers here. we are talking 36. i think i had the exact number here. 36 heads of state and delegations from ten countries. and some critics would say, okay, i'm looking at some of these leaders. i am looking at some of these

faces. you know what? they would sell secrets for money. they would develop nukes for its own protection. some of these leaders are just showing up for a little face time to try to make itt look good. when it comes down to it, money talks. >> i don't know about that. there is a wide range of nations who are attending this summit. certainly, every one does want some face time with president obama. there are some very important discussions going on on the sidelines. for example, with hu jintao, president obama has been talking with him about sanctions on iran. it's not prereally a question o selling the material. although i think we do worry about that with states such as north korea and iran. the real issue, i think, is somebody leaves a gate open, someone forgets to turn on an

alarm system. where there are not very good guns, guards and gates for this material. so the issue is, let's put everything together to protect this material. let's develop security cultures so that there are no lapses. >> interesting. so you think the threat is more infiltrators getting into a facility and stealing these materials versus these materials being sold on the black market? >> the two are not necessarily inconsistent. you can have insider threats. people who work within facilities that decide they want to sell some material or you can have outsider threats. remember, just -- i can't remember the actual date. there was an attack in south africa where two armed teams attacked a facility that contained hundreds of kilograms

of highly enriched uranium, enough to make minibombs. one of those teams actually got through a fence, an electrified fence and they spent 45 minutes in that facility before being detected and apprehended. so there is a range of threats. that's the difficult part. you need to protect against insiders, outsiders, you need to protect against these terrorist attacks on facilities, which we have actually seen in pakistan. so you really want to create a web of security that goes right from the material to the facilities to better enforcement and export controls in a country. >> looks like the president is just getting ready to sit down and start his comments. when he does that, we will take it live, of course. let's see. you guys let me know when the

audio is connected and we begin. the president going over the beginning of this summit with his vice president there. real quickly, sharon -- he just popped on his mike. when he starts speaking, sharon, i will have to cut you off. talking about protecting nuclear stockpiles, which countries do you think do the poorest jobs of doing that. >> it is hard to say. when a country does a poor job, it may mean that it doesn't really know all the steps it has to take. it may be unintentional in some cases. the countries we worry about are those that have trouble implementing regulations, that may have a lot of material in a lot of different places. of course, i think we continue to worry about pakistan and russia. russia has an awful lot of this material and it just takes a lot

of time and effort to go through all the steps to secure this material and consolidate it. >> suzanne malveaux, you are there at the white house. you actually got a chance to see some of the excerptses of t of president's remarks. he makes the point that the risk of a nuclear attack has gone up even though the confrontation has gone down. >> reporter: i have to apologize for the construction noise in the background. that's one of the things the president is going to talk about, the fact that the whole game here has changed. everything has really turned around. they are no longer worried about super powers like russia. no longer worried about state players. although, there are a few iran and north korea, as exceptions. mostly, it is about these smaller groups, these rogue groups, these terrorist organizations getting their hands on some of these nuclear materials. there has been some progress already in some of the side

discussions, side bar discussions that he has had, president obama meeting with the head of ukraine yesterday and then announcing they are going to go ahead and turn over some of their nuclear materials to be secured in another country. the big question, of course, is is it the united states or russia? those are the two most secure places that have been identified that these kind of materials could be held and it would make a big difference if it was the united states or russia. there were other questions that came up yesterday to robert gibbs. you talk about yucca mountain and the nuclear waste that is being stored there. how are people going to feel if the united states does become this repository for these nuclear materials? is it safe? that is something that u.s. officials have to answer. they have to grabble with and say, okay, we are taking on this responsibility. all of the sudden, it becomes the obama administration's job

to make sure the loose nukes are secure. >> i don't know if you can thaens question. i'm going to throw it out, suzanne. i never know what you know. you always have a wealth of information. as i'm looking at the lineup. i'm looking at the president and who is sitting right next to him. i notice the republic of korea is sitting right to his right. they just zoomed out. i can't see the other countries that are close to him. is this strategically planned, who is closest to the president? >> reporter: well, certainly who has the president's ear is planned. you have those sideline meetings, those are very important, the most important if you will, because he is taking time out of his schedule to have the one-on-one conversations. it is no mistake, no accident that you have the representative from south korea sitting right next to him. north korea being a major player and threat when it comes to its own nuclear program. so, yes, that's a leader who is going to want to get some face time with president obama. they are obviously going to be talking about the threat from

north korea. >> sharon, when you look at all the heavy hitters here around the president, next to the president, does this send a message? is it a message that's being heard by countries like iran and north korea? is kim jong-il and mahmoud ahmadinejad watching the tube wondering what's going to happen here? >> oh, absolutely. the message is loud and clear that we have over 40 nations who agree that we need to protect this material against nuclear terrorism. the message to north korea and iran consistently has been do not even think about selling nuclear material or nuclear weapons in the case of north e korea to terrorist organizations. this is really also very important the month before 180 plus nations meet in new york to

review the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. typically, those reviews or at least the last two reviews have been very contentious, where there were a lot of differences between the nonnuclear weapons states and the nuclear weapons states. so this meeting today where you see a good deal of agreement and you see these very powerful leaders together. that sends a very, very positive message. >> here we go. let's watch it. i would like to get started. let me begin by thanking all of you for your participation last night. i thought it was a very important discussion. before i begin, i want to take this moment once again to acknowledge the terrible tragedy that struck the polish people this weekend. we are joined today by a distinguished delegation from poland led by their ambassador.

mr. ambassador, all of us were shocked and deeply saddened by the devastating loss of president kaczynski, the first lady and so many distinguished civilian and military leaders from your country. this was a loss not just for poland but for the world. as a close friend and ally, the united states stands with poland and poles everywhere in these very difficult days as an international community. i know that we will all rally around the polish people who have shown extraordinary strength and resilience throughout their history. so our hearts go out to your people. our thoughts and prayers are with them. we joined them in this time of mourning and so if everybody is agreement, i would like to ask for a moment of silence to show that sol daredarity and to hono

those who are lost. thank you. it is my privilege to welcome you to washington and to formally convenient this historic summit. we represent 47 nations from every region of the world. i thank each of you for being here. this is an unprecedented gathering to address an unprecedented threat. two decades after the end of the cold war, we face a cruel irony of history.

the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up. nuclear materials that could be sold or stolen and fashioned into a nuclear weapon exist in dozens of nations. just smallest amount of plutonium, about the size of an apple, could kill and injury hundreds of thousands of innocent people. terrorist networks such as al qaeda have tried to acquire the material for a nuclear weapon and if they ever succeeded, they would surely use it. were they to do so, it would be a catastrophe for the world, causing extraordinary loss of life, and striking a major blow to global peace and stability. in short, it is increasingly clear that the danger of nuclear terrorism is one of the greatest threats to global security, to

our collective security. that's why one year ago today in prague, i called for a new international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear materials around the world in four years. this is one part of a broader comprehensive agenda that the united states is pursuing. including reducing our nuclear arsenal and stopping the spread of nuclear weapons. an agenda that will bring us closer to our ultimate goal of a world without nuclear weapons. over the past year, we have made progress. at the united nations security council last fall, we unanimously passed resolution 1887 endorsing this comprehensive agenda, including the goal of securing all nuclear materials. last night, in closed session, i believe we made further progress pursuing a shared understanding of the great threat to our people. today, we have the opportunity to take the next steps.

we have the opportunity as individual nations to take specific and concrete actions to secure the nuclear materials in our countries and to to prevent illicit trafficking and smuggling. that will be our focus this morning. we have the opportunity to strengthen the international atomic energy agency, the iaea, with the resources and authorities it needs to meet the responsibilities. that will be our focus at our working lunch. we have the opportunity as an international community to deepen our cooperation and to strengthen the institutions and partnerships that help prevent nuclear materials from ever falling into the hands of terrorists and that will be our focus this afternoon, and we have the opportunity as partners to ensure that our progress is not a fleeting moment, but part of a serious and sustained effort and that's why i am so pleased to announce that president lee has agreed to host the next nuclear security summit

in the republic of korea in two years. this reflects south korea's leadership regionally and globally, and i thank president lee and the south korean people for their willingness to accept this responsibility. i'd ask president lee just to say a few words. >> thank you, president obama for inviting me to this historic summit and to thank you for supporting korea to host next summit in 2012. i assure you i will do best to make next summit a success. so i hope to see all of you in korea. thank you. >> thank you very much.

so today is an opportunity not to make pledges, but to make real progress on the security of our people. all this in turn requires something else which is something more fundamental. it will require a new mindset that we summon the will as nations and as partners to do what this moment in history demands. i believe strongly that the problems of the 21st century cannot be solved by any one nation acting in isolation. they must be solved by all of us coming together. at the dawn of the nuclear age that he helped to unleash, albert einstein said now everything has changed and he warned, we are drifting towards a catastrophe beyond comparison. we shall require a new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. that truth endures today.

for the sake of our common security, for the sake of our survival, we cannot drift. we need a new manner of thinking and action and that is the challenge before us, and i thank all of you for being here to confront that challenge together in partnership. and with that, i'm going to ask that we take a few moments to allow the press to exit before our first session. >> we hate it when that happens, when the press has to exit, that's why we'll bring suzanne malveaux at the white house back in and also sharon squasoni, our expert on nuclear weapons and the threat thereof. suzanne, maybe we should go ahead and explain to our viewers why it operates this way. like what we saw there. it went to bars. we get to see who's there and we get to see the mingling and it's satellite off. >> closed to the press. >> right.

right. >> we'll have a working lunch and we'll probably get a couple of pictures of that in the next session and the president later this afternoon will be holding a press conference and he'll take questions from the international media and the press core corps. you probable asked yet leader of south korea was next to the president. president lee there will be hosting the next nuclear security summit in his own country so that's very significant as well and what we're expecting here out of this when this is all wrapped up today is a document, a communique, if you will, for these leaders to sign on to. we pretty much already know what this document is going to say. it's essentially recognizing that nuclear terrorism is a serious threat, that these world leaders agree with president obama's plan to try to secure these nuclear materials within four years or so and that they'll be making their own pledgees in their own countries to try to make sure that those materials are safe and secure.

the bottom line here, it's not a legal document, it's simply a political document of intention. this is what the world leaders want to do and what they hope to accomplish. they will hold those countries to account so we will see how this developses over time and whether this is a success and that will take months and perhaps years to see if people are serious about this issue. >> great point. sharon, let me ask you that. suzanne lays it out there. we're talking about a document, really, how much weight does this summit hold? >> well, i think the primary objective of this summit is to increase awareness of this threat and to really get states to say, yes, they're willing to do something. the first statement that we heard yesterday from ukraine that it would eliminate over 150 kilograms of highly enriched

uranium, that was a very, very positive precedent. so we hope that we see more statements like that this morning. one of the things that they could do this afternoon when they talk about international collaboration is get firm commitments by states to ratify an amendment to a very important document which is the convention on the physical protection of nuclear material. that amendment which requires states to physically protect material at home, that's very important, and it hasn't entered into force even for the united states. so that could also be a very concrete measure that comes out of this. if i could, i would just like to comment a bit on the role of south korea. i think many thought that russia would host the next nuclear security summit. this is a huge, diplomatic coup

for north korea. the united arab emirates chose south korea to buy reactors from. it didn't choose france and it didn't choose the united states. so this is south korea moving into the spt light in a very positive way, and in the security and nonproliferation issues. >> sharon squasoni, of the prevention program at cisi, the center for strategic and international studies. i wanted to get the full plug in there. >> and our suzanne malveaux at the white house. we will continue to follow the nuclear summit throughout the morning and the afternoon. she hipped her adopted son back to russia unaccompanied and unannounced. a tennessee mother's decision is causing outrage in moscow and now russia is threatening to stop u.s. adoptions. more on that straight ahead. que.

coup a coup.back to russia unacd unannounced. a tennessee mother's decision is causing outrage in moscow and now russia is threatening to stop adoptions. it will send top officials to russia this week to urge them not to do that. a lot of fallout from this story. martin savidge is in shelbyville. the mother is not talking to police at this point, right? >> reporter: right, kyra. ever since this case earns rupted last week everyone has wanted to talk to the adoptive american family here and that includes law enforcement and the family had indicated that they'd be willing to talk to law enforcement. they told as much to cnn in a phone call on friday, was there supposed to be a meeting with the sheriff on friday. it didn't happen and it was moved to this week and late yesterday afternoon the sheriff was told by the attorney representing the family that meeting is never going to happen. at least not voluntarily. here's what the sheriff said. >> i guess we're kind of getting our hand forced here and that's the only thing i know to do at

this point. they keep insinuating that they're going to come in and evidently not and from what i understood this afternoon they're not going to come in at all at any time unless we bring charges then they will produce her. >> reporter: that's sheriff randall boies. you have to feel for the sheriff. he's a sheriff in a small town and has a small department in the middle of an international incident between russia and the united states. he's got the state department breathing down his neck and the russian government breathing down his neck and every international news media gathered in the middle of his town. it's an emotional story about a little kid and everyone in the country is ringing his office telling him what to do and by the way, he's up for re-election in three weeks. in the meantime he's trying to sort through all of this. there are two avenues he's looking at. there was in any case where the kid was abandoned? so far they don't think so. second, was there any abuse? for that they've asked for the

russians' help, on two fronts they would like medical records and a forensic interview, in which the child is videotaped and asked to show ask tell about certain things. the russians say they will cooperate at this point. kyra? >> we'll follow it along with you. martin savidge. thanks so much. other top stories right now. the recovery effort at the upper big branch mine in raleigh county, west virginia, is complete. overnight crews removed the last nine bodies of the coal miners who died last week in the massive underground blast. investigators will try to determine what sparked that tragedy. later this hour we'll talk to one miner's widow who says she doesn't want her son to follow in her husband's fatal footsteps. one person thought to be lost in a crash in a navy training plane. two other people in the plane died in the crash. investigators are expected to arrive at the scene today. that plane took off from the naval air station in pensacola a florida, on what's believed to be a routine training mission. new division within the

ranks of catholic clergymen with one outspoken pastor taking an extreme position regarding the ongoing priest sex abuse scandal. he's suggesting that the pope should step aside. father james cahill in his own words. >> to not have myopic obedience from me like the myopic obedience of soldiers for hitler, and yet this church has remained patently silent about this. the pope should step down if he's not prepared to embrace the truth relative to this matter. >> no immediate reaction from the vatican's press office on behalf of the pope, though father scale's bishop is calling the comments unfortunate. we start with the nuclear summit going on in washington. world leaders gathering to talk about threats, real and imagined. 47 world leaders are there at the urging of president obama to

talk about the threat of nuclear terrorism, al qaeda and dirty bombs. iran is also on the agenda. possible sanctions for its nuclear defiance and for the first time, china says it's onboard with possible punishment. ukraine has agreed to get rid of the enriched uranium stockpiles which can be used for nuclear weapons. it's unknown where the materials will end up, likely either russia or the u.s. we heard a short time ago from the president on what he's hoping to accomplish at the summit. cnn correspondent suzanne malveaux is with us now. direct and to the point. he's worried about nukes getting in the hands of terrorists. >> reporter: kyra, he's trying to make that point by using very dramatic language. if you listen to what the president said he's making the case here, he's trying to build a case of momentum and urgency around this problem because he believes that there are leaders who are not convinced that this is a priority, a global priority or priority within their own countries so the president has

gathered the world leaders. the hope is after these two sessions, these meetings and a working lunch that they'll all have an agreement that they can sign on to, and acknowledge that nuclear terrorism is a significant threat. here is how president obama put it to the group of world leaders just moments ago. >> just the smallest amount of plutonium, about the size of an apple could kill and injure hundreds of thousands of innocent people. terrorist networks such as al qaeda have tried to acquire the material for a nuclear weapon and if they ever succeeded they would surely use it. >> reporter: and one of those groups he mentioned al qaeda, they're also talking about criminal gangs and other rogue organizations that perhaps could get their hands on the nuclear materials. what the president is saying is that his goal is within four years that these countries will come together and try to secure those vulnerable nuclear, loose nukes, if you will, around the world. it is something they hope these

world leaders will make a pledge later today after those sessions are over to try to make sure that those materials are secure and that threat is minimized. kyra? >> suzanne, at a time when americans are worried about the horrible economy, not having jobs, getting health care benefits, you name it. why have the summit now and how does the white house respond to that? how do you tell these folks, loose newarks just as important, we've got to talk about it. >> reporter: certainly. that's a very good point because you talk to white house officials and they will say, look, we are spending -- essentially they've spent five days or so focusing on this issue, just a little under a week, to talk about this dramatic treaty between the united states and russia pulling back their own nuclear arsenals, this whole new policy, nuclear policy dealing with attacking and retaliating in other countries and that that is very significant and then this final portion here that this is the

appropriate amount of time to talk about this threat. they believe it is important enough and surely they will turn the corner and talk about jobs and economy, but that the president can do more than one thing at once. this is something they feel is a real priority. >> got it. suzanne malveaux, live from the white house. we want to hear from you. same question. you've got the rotten economy. you've got bitter health care battle, car recalls, bullying, how worried are you about loose nukes? go to my blog, cnn.com/kyra and post your comments and i would like to read some of them later on in the newscast. small step forward on extending unemployment benefit, but a senate battle could leave more than a million people with nothing. republicans have threatened to block the nearly $10 billion bill because they want to know how it will be paid for. a vote could come as early as thursday, but without any republican support it will be dead on arrival. around 200,000 people had their benefits run out last week while

the senate was on vacation. another million could lose benefits if nothing gets done by the end of the month. now to a mystery in mexico. the country's mired a drug cartel war, murders, kidnappings, terror. we talk about it a lot on this news task and now a man who heads a task force to curb kidnappings is missing. talk about irony. someone might have kidnapped the anti-kidnapping boss. rafael ro mo is the senior editor of latin american affairs and he's following the story for us. >> as you may imagine, a lot of concern in mexico. it's been more than a week since edgar contreras silva disappeared. he was reported missing by his own family. according to the prosecutor's office, silva is a supervisor in the anti-kidnapping division of the local prosecutor's office in mexico city. so as you can imagine, his disappearance has led many to think that he's become a victim of kidnapping himself. authorities have opened an investigation into his possible

disappearance, but they say they're not certain that he was a victim of an aggression according to a statement. in a surprising twist to this case, officials have now confirmed that contreras was himself the target of an investigation for crimes he allegedly committed in his capacity as government employee. this investigation started to march 19th and at this point all authorities are saying is that the case against contreras has to do with possible irregularities regarding an investigation he was conducting. in any case, his disappearance is a cause for concern in a country where 60 to 70 people are kidnapped each month. whether he was a victim of kidnapping or whether he's missing or he's decided to flee because of this investigation, in either case, it can -- we are talking about a possible connection to organized crime in mexico and that's the real concern here in this case. >> how many times have we talked about the power of that organized crime and even the good guys getting corrupted and

getting involved with them because sometimes it's just easier to follow the bad guy. we'll follow this for sure. thanks so much, rafael. 28-year-old mother needed surgery to save her life if red tape didn't kill her first. >> i offered it back to them and they said it's too late at this point. so i -- i don't know where else to turn to and i'm out of time. >> a community heard that and said we can't let this happen. outrage is a powerful thing and so is pollen. it's such a problem right now that we're putting our senior medical correspondent on it. come look at this. jack lowe, one of our pho photojournalists went outside and that is a piece of felt. we'll talk more about that and plus complete weather forecast coming up in just a few minutes. a guy named his own price, wants a room tonight for 65 dollars.

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local businesses and raised three times as much as diana needed. then jackson memorial backed out because medicaid decided to drop diana. that's because she had accepted a social security payment to help her son. >> i just -- i never asked to get any more than what i needed. >> medicaid had signed on this and everything was set to go until april 1st of this year, last week. on april 1st diana was notified by medicaid that they were canceling her coverage because her income now that her son is receiving social security disability is too high. >> i offered it back to them and they said it's too late at this point so i don't know where else to turn to and i'm out of time. i just want to thank everybody for their support once again. i am in a situation where i need

the support that i'm -- you know, i don't know where to go. i don't know who to turn to. >> once again, you came through. this time not with cash, but with pressure, with angry phone calls. enough pressure that we can tell you now the surgery is back on. >> a lot of people called a lot of different people in the last 24 hours since they found out about this. all of the way from i got a call from a senator's office -- i'm sorry, congressman's office in washington and she said that they've been calling the governor down here in florida and a lot of other people. >> diana herself is too weak to talk now from medical tests at jackson all day long, but -- >> thank you, everybody, for saving my mommy who has hair that's going to come back. >> we're reporting from wsvn and we'll let you know how diana's surgery goes. school bullies have been in

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temperatures in the mid to upper 07s, maybe touching 80 degrees and nothing to complain about there for sure, but if you suffer at all from allergies or even if you just moved here and never had an allergy in your life, you're probably suffering now. the pollen count is around 2400, 2500, and that's still half from what we had last week and nonetheless, it's extremely high. philadelphia back through pittsburgh and trying to get into washington and right now i'm seeing observations at philadelphia airport and just some overcast conditions in new york city. the temperatures there in the 50s and cooler today obviously because it's held down because of the cloud cover that's sneaking in there and not a very strong weather system to ride over the top of a very strong ridge that's keeping everything so dry across the south and this trough will run into that ridge and pretty much sit and spin. a little bit of snowfall across parts of this area and 6 to 12 inches in some spots and some of it accumulating fairly rapidly and this is accumulating

moisture and some wind across parts of the northern plains. we saw winds gusting at 60 miles per hour in parts of utah and we could see wind ripping across the front range and a chance of seeing severe weather right there. pollen still floating around the area and it's gorgeous outside. maybe you just need to wear a mask. >> a breathing device. thanks, rob. that pollen is everywhere, that is for sure and much of this country is suffering right now, but as you reach for that tissue, wash your car, maybe you're thinking is there something more serious going on here? like do i have an allergy? our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us with more advice. >> with the pollen we have around here, i can't imagine not having an allergy. >> i didn't have allergies until i moved to atlanta. >> my car was covered in green. i all of a sudden had a green car. it was amazing. let's take a look at the pollen counts around the country. what i want to say first is anything over 120 is considered

extremely high, all right? so look at atlanta, 2,351 and again, anything over 120 is considered extremely high. off thein at around 1500, nashville at 240 and all sorts of other numbers and you can see the brown region. we're talking a lot of pollen and people who never suffered allergies be feeling it. how do you know if it's not just allergies and it's a cold. allergies involve a certain level of itchiness, your eyes and your nose that you don't get with a cold. also, a cold and a flu will end at a certain point. allergies seem to go on and on. it's not a five-day experience. it keeps going on until the pollen goes away. >> i didn't have allergies until i moved here. is there a truth to that or am i just making that up? >> oh, no. you can develop allergies as an adult and a lot of times you think of them as a kid thing, but you can develop them as an adult and it's not uncommon when we move to a new city like kyra

in atlanta. maybe that place didn't have the same trees that we have here. after you get desensitized you will develop the allergies. if you're someone who moves from job to job woou you may find yourself with allergies. >> what kind of impact does that have on kids? >> it could have a serious impact on kids because kids are especially prone to asthma and kids often also get sign usitis and that's what parents need to look for. it's not just that the allergies are dangerous, it's that it can aggravate your child's asthma. let's take a couple of specific things you can do for kids and adults and steps that we can take to make allergies better and i've tried these myself and stay indoors because that air-conditioning will filter out that pollen and also wash your hair before going to bed. it's disgusting, probably how much pollen you have in your hair. you won't see it, but the last thing you need is a mop of pollen right on top of you.

keep your shoes at the door so you're not trekking it through the house and wash your pets. see number two, the same reason so you don't have pollen machines running around your house. >> has it been affecting you? >> not in the spring, but in the fall. i feel the ragweed and i've tried all those things and they all work. >> toyota buckles up and bears down in the face of another public relations headache. we'll tell you why a consumers group is urging people to not buy this luxury suv model.

toyota takes another hit. consumer reports is issuing a stern warning to car buyers not to buy the lexus gx 460. stephanie elam in new york to explain why. it's one problem after another for toyota. >> seriously, kyra. as far as "consumer reports" is concerned this particular issue is a serious one. the magazine put a don't buy warning on the lexus gx 460 suv and it hasn't used that warning in nine years. the problem is safety. "consumer reports" found the suv has a high risk of roll overs. the electronic stability control failed to keep the vehicle in line during tests. as for tote a it's going to try to duplicate the tests, but in the meantime the automaker says

the 2010 gx 460 meets or exceeds all federal requirements. >> toyota is already dealing with a pr nightmare because of january's recall, i mean, 8 million vehicle. what does the latest wrinkle mean for the company? >> well, the thing is if you compare this bonn to tone to th issue this is just a drop in the bucket. there are two key things that make this problematic for one thing there are only 5,000 gx 406s on the road and it doesn't know of any deaths or injuries related to this. if you take a look at the chart we put together here. this is toyota trying to rebound from january's recall. toyota shares are down about 12% from january and that's just before this recall was announced. today if you take a look at the stock it's off about 2%. so this is not the same overall impact here. overall on the markets, the dow is struggling to stay above 11,000 and right now it's not doing a very good job and it's not below that and the dow is

off at 10,962 and the nasdaq up eight at 2449. we'll keep our eye on the market and see if we can get above 11,000, kyra. >> that would be great. thanks, stephanie. her husband was one of the 29 who never came back from the mine. >> i can still feel him here. it's -- it's just really hard. it's really hard. >> a wife's biggest fear comes true. her heartbreaking story in just six minutes. plus she's a former teacher accused of having sex with two student, but she's not going to trial. it doesn't cover everything.

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checking top stories. 47 world leaders getting down to business on nuclear security and president obama getting very serious with them. the president thoepd morning's summit session by stressing urgent action to keep nuclear materials out of terrorists' hands. the president's goal is to have all nukesed within four years. former middle school teacher known for flashing a smile in her sex trial turns serious as a plea deal was announced. stephanie ragusa is accused of having sex with two of her

students. prosecutors offered the deal with con -- after consulting, rather, with the victims' families. >> they're the ones that are going into that courtroom. they're the ones that will have to testify. this is what they went through so i take great weight in what the victims and their families want to see done in a case. >> ragusa faces a maximum sentence of ten years in prison. she'll be sentenced in june. taliban militants are threatening to kill two kidnapped french journalists unless france releases detainees. they've been held for three months and there's been no comment from the french government about the proposed deal. life doesn't just go on after you've lost a loved one. ask the spouses of the 29 west virginia miners. the bodies were recovered overnight and melissa clark is still keeping her husband very close. cnn's ines ferre reports. >> they did a relief of names of the individuals who were -- who

perished and of course, my husband is the second name they called. >> robert clark was one of the 29 coal miners killed in last week's west virginia mine disaster. and clark was savvy with machinery, but melissa, like so many other miners' wives in the area knew the job was dangerous. you always have a fear. as his wife, i mean, i would always worry like i said earlier that it would be the last time i would see him, but he was doing what he liked doing. >> but the clarks agreed their 3-year-old son stephen should follow a different path. they were saving up for college. he loved my son so much. he wanted so much to teach him things, and to see him grow up. he wanted him to have the best, and that's one reason he worked

where he did because he wanted the best for my son. >> reporter: her faith, friends and relatives are pulling her through now, as difficult as it is. >> everything that i do, everywhere i look, i see him and i can still feel him here. it's -- it's just really hard. it's really hard. >> reporter: ines ferre, cnn, beckly, west virginia.

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protect and serve, two words police are sworn to uphold, but some officers take that oath more seriously than others. like redwood city, california's brad johnson. not just a cop, but a homemaker for one down guy with bad luck. here's rob roth from cnn affiliate ktvu. >> reporter: for 48-year-old martin mccall today was moving in day. moving into his new home in the

harbor village mobile home park in redwood city. >> very happy today. very happy. i cried like a little babe pep tears were flowing when i walked into this house. >> reporter: mccall says his life began to unravel five years ago when he lost his job and his wife left him. he ended up homeless sleeping in front of the traffic court building in redwood city and spending his days sitting here in courthouse square. that is where officer brad johnson would see him and talk with him. >> he was always very friendly, very respectful. he was never intoxicated. >> reporter: officer johnson heard there was a maintenance job open at the mobile home park so he told the manager about mccall, it includes health benefits and a mobile roam rent-free. >> i listened to his story, and i think he needs a second chance and i think he's worth saving. >> as of tonight mccall will have his own bed, no more doorways.

>> bless side what i feel. it's been a long, hard three years. >> reporter: this afternoon officer johnson dropped by to see how mccall was making out. >> i'm actually proud of him. it's strange. you feel like it's one of your kids going to school for the first time. you kind of keep tabs on him and to see him come off the street. >> it's awesome, it's wonderful. it doesn't suck to be me anymore. >> that itself all. mccall says he hopes his story is proof that a person who lands in the street can sometimes back up if someone is just willing to help. rob marciano, scattered thunderstorms for parts of the southeast, right? >> yeah, well northeast. >> we've got it down here that would be sweet because we could breathe a little bit easier, but a little bit of rain across parts of the northeast today. this isn't touching the ground in places like new york. not yet. so maybe a sprinkle. it it will probably rain in d.c. the stronger system is certainly out west and this will bring snows to the higher terrain, maybe 6 to 12 inches of it and

windy conditions today. maybe a threat for seeing severe weather across the northwestern plains and this isn't going to make a whole lot of progress off to the east. so don't look for rain to be in the southeast any time soon. i wanted to touch on this. remember we issued this forecast last week from colorado state university? very intense or very active hurricane season expected this year compared to last year. we'll see that el nino wane, so well above normal numbers and the other reason is, the same reason that we had a really cold winter which is an isolation that happens in the atlantic ocean. here's the u.s. and here's the atlantic and this bright yellow and orange area, that's a temperature anomaly meaning the temperatures are well above average there. about the same temperatures in the southern atlantic now as we saw last june, so that's another reason, kyra, that we think we'll see an active hurricane season. i should also note that the gulf is cooler than normal because of the cold winter, but that's pretty shallow and it will warm

up relatively quickly. folks, get prepared. it could be a doozy of one this year. >> thanks, rob. well, i had a show and then i had a different show and then i had a twitter account. twitter o'brien in his own words, but the late-need comedian has moved beyond the twitter account and landed a new gig. alina cho looks at the changing landscape of the late-night wars. >> hey, kyra, a lot of people thought conan would be going to fox. in fact, many thought it was a foregone conclusion, but in a move that surprised nearly everyone, conan is going to cable. the show will be on tbs, a part of turner broadcasting, the same company, by the way, that owns cnn. the show will launch in november at 11:00 p.m., it is still unnamed and will air four days a week, not five. monday through thursday. we also know conan will remain in los angeles, and he will own the show, too. that ownership stake is believed to be a big reason why conan made the jump to tbs, but conan

on cable? he joked about it in the statement he released saying, quote, in three months i've gone from network television to twitter to performing live in theaters and now i'm headed to basic cable. my plan is working perfectly. critics say, if you think about it, conan on cable is a perfect fit. >> i think he'll have a much more free and open style than he did. we had to try to tailor it to a mass audience which he really wasn't getting. he was getting 2 million less than leno had gotten. i guess you can say here's my core audience. i'm going to speak to them and i'll be as wild, crazy and creative as i can be. >> speaking of jay leno's, his ratings are up 50% over what conan was pulling, but his audience is also ten years older than conan's and remember, it's the youngest viewers that advertisers covet and they flock to comedy central and it's worth pointing out that conan will go

head-to-head at 11:00 p.m. with jon stewart. conan built up a following during nbc, there were protests, website. so are any of the networks commenting? probably not a surprise, no, they're not and neither are any of conan's competitors, but remember, it did get really ugly toward the end. so as a reminder, i thought it would be fun to pull clips of conan attacking his former employer, nbc. take a look. >> just coming to work in the morning now has gotten really uncomfortable. ♪ ♪ morons, incompetent morons ♪ these people are morons >> conan ultimately got a 32 million dollar settlement from nbc and he agreed to stay off the air until september. so why is the new show launching in november? well, it's all about baseball.

tbs carries the major league baseball playoffs in october and they decided it just didn't make sense to launch conan's show in september and preempt it for a month in october and then bring it back in november. there's also a feeling, kyra, that the playoffs would be a great time to promote conan's new show. >> thanks. what's comedian george lopez got to say about this? >> i think you're here on a good night. >> there's no bad nights on "the george lopez show." >> no. but the conan coming to tbs. >> conan's coming? >> yes. >> where are you going? >> i'm staying, i'm going midnight and he's coming at 11:00 and i'm going to midnight. >> get the hell out of here! so you're going to move for the white man, huh? >> i am. i am. hey -- >> i hope he appreciates this.

>> think the white man does appreciate it very much. >> you don't got to clean or nothing, right? >> no. and i get to go to work an hour later and that's a latino dream come true. >> george lopez keeping it in the family. tonight he'll be on cnn's larry king live to discuss the news about conan coming to tbs. well, you'll be either really mad at hugh hefner for this or you'll want to send him a thank you card. someone asked hef if kate gosselin would ever be in playboy. his response? not one, but two emphatic noes. he's even said that she's not a celebrity and doesn't know why she's on "dancing with the stars." it's not clear if she ever wanted to be in "playboy" in the first place. maybe hef thinks she's overexposed enough as it is. breaking down bulles. one group now teaching them a new way, replacing aggression with self-esteem.

school is a terrible thing to waste. coming up next hour, a new school that was supposed to be a model for students, but now it may never be used.

school bellies have been in the news a lot lately, but we'll talk about that later. are we going president obama here at the prayoff with the blog in you want to tell me what we're doing? let's figure that out here. let's talk about school bullies and how they have been in the news a rot lately. it's actually a piece we put together for you. a girl who hanged herself allegedly because of bullies. we were talking about phoebe prince and other stories for weeks. one middle school in austin,

texas, might have a solution. students can send e-mails and texts to adults at the school about teachers and bus drivers about any concern of abuse from bulles. they can be anonymous, if they want. take a listen. >> a way to speak honestly. there's no fear of retribution. there's no fear of students knowing that they've visited with us online. >> a principal says that program has really taken a bite out of the bullies. before it was set up. 75% of the bullies cited bullying a concern a year later. that number went down to 25%. bullies have feelings, too, and sometimes if you dig really deep down there you can see a good person who is just having a tough time. that's what one group in atlanta is doing, digging down to build up successful young women. cnn's brooke bolduan is has the story for us. >> reporter: graduation is a day that almost didn't happen.

she fell in with the wrong crowd and considered dropping out. >> people were friends with me because they were scared of me. they were friends with me because they wanted to see something happen. i was somebody else's lab, and every time they see me they could easily know which but the tons push. >> reporter: early in shauneika's teen years she became a bully. it started with words and tormenting her classmates verbally. when she got older, her aggression got violent&forcing her father to intervene. >> i could see how those people felt because when i had that feeling it lowered me as a person. i felt less than human. >> reporter: her life changed after her dad brought her here to ladies of favor. it's a faith-based non-profit mentoring program that helps young girls address issues like low self-esteem, bullying and self-respect. >> as a teenager, i went through an array of things. i dealt with low self-esteem.

i dealt with trying to find myself and a lot of the issues that our young girls were facing, that was me. >> shauneika sat with a mentor once a week where they will discuss self-confidence, character building and how to become a leader. >> there's lots of jealousy. >> reporter: why do girls become bullies? it begins in a social setting when girls are trying to figure out who their friends are. >> there's lots of competition. there's lots of sort of struggling to express their own identity. girls often feel helpless and powerless. being aggressive is a way to try to assume power. >> reporter: shauneika has faced her own struggles and knows not to resort to violence to be popular. >> if i wasn't in ladies of favor today i can honestly say i don't know where i would be at right now. >> shaneika is a very, very bright young lady. she's very smart and invest

articulate and there was something on the inside that was damaged and she was trying to find a way out. >> reporter: ladies of favor helped shauneika, and now she's found. >> i'm a phenomenal woman. >> she has self-confidence that will help her to face an important day. gaed situation. brook bolduan, cnn, atlanta. president obama is hosting dozens of world leaders to talk about nuclear weapons. what we wanted to know from you, with the problems in the world how much do you worry about loose nukes. one good nuke in bad hands makes all those other issues you listed evaporate, literally. chico says even though i'm affected by most of the issues listed, the nuke worry is the scariest. loose nukes have been around for 40 years and they've not cause good problems. it is great to talk about nukes, but the fact is the u.s. is trillions in debt,